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Random Observations on Art, Photography, and the Creative Process. These talks focus on the creative process in fine art photography. LensWork editor Brooks Jensen side-steps techno-talk and artspeak to offer a stimulating mix of ideas, experience, and observations from his 50 years as a fine art photographer, writer, and publisher. Topics include a wide range of subjects from finding subject matter to presenting your work, and building an audience. Included in this RSS Feed are the LensWork ...
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HT2202 - Repetition One of my favorite Zen sayings is: If the spirit of repetition leaves you, your work will become difficult. Pursuing photography involves a measure of drudgery. It may seem that artmaking should be all fun in the sunshine, but there are undeniable aspects that require discipline and raw commitment and endurance. Show your apprec…
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HT2201 - Try Something New The very concept of creativity is entwined with the challenge of problem solving. The question about how to be creative can be thought of differently than inspiration. Creativity, like problem solving) is often a matter of trial and error. That, in turn, can be reduced to trying something new and assessing its consequence…
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HT2200 - White, Off-white, Ivory, and Cream
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HT2200 - White, Off-white, Ivory, and Cream Paper colors come in lots of variations. How does one choose which paper to use? I find that decision is often a consequence of the color of ink we select, especially with monochromatic images. Dynamic range also comes into play which is often influenced by the textures of the subject matter. Even more im…
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LW1445 - Yup, Photography is a Great Medium for Art
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LW1445 - Yup, Photography is a Great Medium for Art For years now, I've said that today is the greatest time in the history of photography to be a photographer. It's true, and here are several reasons why I continue to think we are so fortunate to be photographers today. All previous episodes of our weekly podcast are available to members of LensWo…
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HT2199 - Abstract Moments Yesterday we had a visitor who is not a photographer, but it's fascinated by the photographs she can make with her iPhone. Understandable, she's probably one of millions. She showed me a photograph of an abstract that was quite lovely. She had sprinkled comet all across her bathtub in preparation for a good cleaning and it…
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HT2198 - Observe a Pencil In one of my high school science classes, the teacher gave us an assignment to observe a pencil. The idea was to write down as many observations as we could possibly think of in just looking at a pencil. After the allotted time, we wrote down on the chalkboard everybody's observations. It was fascinating how many obvious t…
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HT2197 - Keyword Hierarchies Thank goodness Lightroom allows for keyword hierarchies. I'm assuming that other software does, too, and if not it's a shame. Here is an overview of how I use hierarchies to make finding that image I'm searching for a lot easier.Por Brooks Jensen
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HT2196 - Megapixels and Aspect Ratio Did it ever occur to you that the megapixel rating for your camera is based on its native aspect ratio? A full frame camera with an aspect ratio of 3:2 will discard 12% of those if you print using a 4:3 aspect ratio. A full frame camera with an aspect ratio of 3:2 will discard 33% of the pixels if you print usin…
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LW1331 - Expanding the Moment - Sequences and Grids
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This RSS Feed to be Deprecated As of January 2023, this RSS feed will be phased out and then retired in mid-February 2023. Please redired your RSS feed to the following URL. http://www.lenswork.com/podcast.xml LW1331 - Expanding the Moment - Sequences and Grids Still photography is wonderful, but the single image is not the only option. Sequences a…
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